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    Random Christmas Facts

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    7.6 million Christmas trees are sold each year.
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    Boxing Day Origin
    Boxing Day Origin
    Boxing Day is named so because it was the day that "Christmas boxes" were given to the more needy.
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    Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
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    Santa Claus has many different names around the world including Father Christmas in the UK, Pere Noel in France, Kriss Kringle in Germany, La Befana in Italy, Julinesse in Denmark, Dedushka Moroz (meaning Grandfather Frost) in Russia and the Three Kings i
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    In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall.
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    The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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    The world's tallest Xmas tree at 221ft high was erected in a Washington shopping mall in 1950.
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    Although now mostly vegetarian, in Victorian times, mince pies were made with beef and spices.
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